"Higher education is our priority and there is a separate secretary for it," Chief Minister Raghubar Das told the state Assembly during Question Hour.
The government would meet expectations of the members concerned on higher education in five years, he added.
State HRD Minister Neera Yadav said she would get it probed when JMM MLA Joba Manjhi and Jai Bharat Samanta Party legislator Gita Koda raised the issue of absence of teachers in primary schools in Naxal-affected Gudri block in the West Singhbhum District.